Hilary Swank (Hilary Ann Swank) Quotes

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

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• My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Film
  • Favorite
  • Finale

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
  • Search
  • Others

• Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Dark
  • Never
  • Influence

• If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Actor
  • Give
  • Romance

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Government
  • Independent
  • Accountability

• Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Good
  • Music
  • Live

• Even an independent label is looking for a hit, they're not looking for a record that's not gonna do well.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Independent
  • Looking
  • Well

• Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Successful

• When you're talking about capital and financial things, which I certainly pay a lot of attention to, I base those decisions on one question that I typically ask myself, which is 'Does it help us to build a better company?'

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Help
  • Attention
  • Question

• Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  

  Jean Paul
  • Death
  • Sleep

• So I think a writer should write what he loves, the people he relates to.

  

  David E. Kelley
  • People

• Since I was younger I've been making the best out of nothing.

  

  Wiz Khalifa

• Everything men do is for women.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Men
  • Women

• I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long, because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.

  

  David Thewlis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Country

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Women
  • Rights

• Try new things, step out of your comfort zone, take risks, do things in ways you've never done them before, ask for help, surround yourself with self-actualized people, become obsessed with the fact that you have one go-round on this planet as the you that is you, and realize how precious and important it is not to squander that.

  

  Jen Sincero
  • People
  • Important
  • Done

• You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

  

  Hilary Swank
  • Life
  • Change
  • Fate